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To: geode00 who wrote (204130)	9/23/2006 1:23:08 PM
From: Ichy Smith	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

The Liberal solution is to toss money at it. The Conservative solution is to stop sending money. Neither has a clue how to fix the system, and frankly both sides are afraid to do much, Canadians would riot. I live in a small city with 3 hospitals. Until recently we had 3 full administrations for the hospitals..... that's is 450,000 a year just for the ceo's to run the hospitals in a city with 100,000 people. That doesn't include assistants..... We had one Hospital head using a limo to send her kids back and forth to school, and the hospital paid for it. The waste is on the top in the administrations, and NO PARTY is going to go for those people. No one in Canada gets a bill, no one knows for example what a visit to the doctor costs, or what the doctor billed the government for. There are not enough doctors so the emergency wards are always full. I saw the costs for a tourist 7 or 8 years ago, and it cost her $300.00 to have her blood pressure taken, her heart rate taken, her name, and address and telephone number written down and a brief description of her ailment, (constipation) 6 hours she waited for the doctor and for $300 more dollars she got a prescription for Citromag, an over the counter medication. Time involved for her 7 hours, for the hospital 8 minutes, cost to her $600.00 upfront and they wanted to accept US dollars at par. That is the same thing they would have charged the government for the same service. With not enough doctors we end up having the hospital waiting rooms full every night. And when welfare checks go out you don't want to be in those emergency rooms. I would love to provide you with stats, but every doctor and every hospital is a private public business. The stats are now posted somewhere in the hospital. I think it is now $1000 a night with no treatment, but admit it has been a couple of years.....

To: geode00 who wrote (204130)	9/23/2006 1:40:39 PM
From: neolib	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 281500

So it costs $100K to have open heart surgery in the US and it costs 1/10th that outside the US. That isn't from medical malpractice (2% of total costs), it's from what? Offshoring of expensive medical procedures has been going on for some time, and is increasingly likely in the future. S. Africa and India are two places actively chasing this business. The future will be interesting.